Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rooted in the rich tradition of African-American spirituals. Gospel music has evolved over time. The genre's earliest beginnings ...

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The Negro spirituals : plantation songs and jubilee songs, 1600-1870 -- The gospel songs : gospel hymns, historical gospel, and traditional songs, songs of Tindley, Dorsey, Campbell, and others, ...

WEST OAK LANE >> When Joann Frasier Dasent decided to produce a production at her mother’s West Oak Lane church, she thought it would be an enjoyable, but simple, event. She expected that her ...

Looking back at the painful and difficult history of being Black in America, religion has always been an important cultural and spiritual backbone — constantly sustaining and replenishing the ...

Watching J. Weldon Norris coach the internationally acclaimed Howard University Choir through a set of spirituals is something of a revelation for both the listener and the singer. That’s because ...

The Lord works in mysterious ways-in this case, a revolution in audio recording and some eager listeners who combined to stage an almost miraculous resurgence in gospel music. The crossover success of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clockwise from bottom left, Jaliyah Campbell, Maicy Powell, Stephanie Zandra, Raleigh Mosely II and Hadara Porter are featured in ...

When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke at a mass meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL to kick off the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, it was before “5,000 hymn-singing blacks.” ...

ALTON — Fred and Barbara Church of Bethalto, who founded southern gospel group, “The Spirituals” in 1967, are returning to their roots, and bringing monthly concerts to River of Life Family Church in ...